Somali parents have been reporting their teenaged sons going missing in MN for a few years. I'm curious as to how these young men are leaving the country without their parents' permission. When our daughter was 14, she and I went with some friends to Montreal. At the border, the train stopped and US Border officials came on board, and when we showed them our IDs, (I brought her birth certificate, because she didn't yet have a passport or driver's license) the officer asked if I had a letter from her father, my husband, giving me permission to take her out of the country. I laughed, because I thought he was joking, but apparently he wasn't. I told him I'd never heard of that, but if he wanted to CALL my husband, he was welcome to do so. He didn't pursue it, and we crossed over and back a few days later, without any other problems.
SO how are these boys leaving the country, if they are minors?
How are any of these people leaving the country - on their way to Somalia, of all places?
I think the NSA is pretty much forbidden to track Muslims, IIRC.